Reality Quotes

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Our intention creates our reality.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

I watch every reality show out there.

Reality is a sliding door.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the gym every day.

I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.